DAA News Network

USAID (US Agency for International Development) have compiled a collection of statistics on the gender dimension of disability. One key finding is that there are considerably more disabled women than disabled men.
In low and middle income countri ...

In an interim court ruling, Abbie Dorn, a disabled woman who can only communicate by blinking, has been granted visiting rights with her 4-year old triplets.
Two years after they were born, their parents divorced. Except for a four-day visit in D ...

A ministry of gender and social development was set up two years ago and is beginning to address issues for disabled women in Kenya. Esther Murugi, the former Minister, has called for a census of disabled people as the first step to mainstream the is ...

"At a community meeting, they didn't allow me to talk. It happens to all persons with disabilities. It is as if we weren't human ... On occasions when food is being given, sometimes persons with disabilities are given what others leave behind on t ...

Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) have published a policy paper on the rights of disabled women to health. It sets this fundamental human right in the context of Australia's obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Dis ...

The Home Secretary, Teresa May, has warned the Chancellor of the Exchequer that cuts imposed in the June Emergency Budget may be in breach of the Equality Act 2010. This is because they would have a disproportionate effect on women, pensioners, et ...

The meeting at the end of June of the United Nations Economic and Social Council brings together health and development ministers from around the world to assess progress on the UN development agenda. There will be particular emphasis on gender eq ...